Awakening The Inner Reader In Every Child By Donalyn Miller

Teachers have traditionally taught students how to read, but with today’s greater understanding of the importance role literacy plays in life success and achievements, classrooms increasingly have the common goal to assist all students in gaining the joy of reading. Reading can not only help students academically, but it can also help students find comfort when facing difficult life situations, gain new interests, making connections, communicate, and discover every aspect about themselves. Donalyn Miller, the author of The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child, states it best when she proclaims, reading is a choice that determines how a person spend every aspect of their life, and the best way to express love for students and people is by putting a book in their hand. (pg. 173) Every student can become a reader, and a love of reading can be cultivated in every student, when teachers become reading role model, and create a classroom environment where reading for pleasure is encouraged and supported. …show more content…
Miller claims, that she is so enthusiastic, joyous, and willing to share her reading experiences that her students get “swept up” in her love of books, and they want to experience what she feels about books. (106) Modeling how important reading is by simply reading and share books with students is the best way to be a reading role model. Moreover, being surrounded by a wide variety of rich reading material, bringing reading material everywhere, highlighting books, and reading aloud to students are some of the most effective ways to model a love of